Process Safety

This book provides early career engineers with a strong practical background in Process Safety. It contains basic theory to bolster understanding of the subject, while giving practical information covering both design and operation of process plants. It offers an interactive approach with frequent links between chapters and case histories.

Frank Crawley served as a plant commissioning and start-up manager at Olefine Plants in ICI for seven years. He had a further 10 years "Special Duties" on ICI Nylon Intermediates. For 10 years he was leader of the Safety & Loss Prevention (now called Process Safety) Engineering team in a major oil company. After retirement, he spent over 10 years as senior lecturer at Strathclyde University in parallel with consultancy activities.
Doug Scott graduated from the University of Bradford with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Management Economics. After working for ten years in a variety of roles for oil and chemical companies, he joined the insurance industry as a risk engineer and over 35 years has visited hundreds of facilities around the world to perform risk surveys and advise on safety related aspects of design and operation. He has been involved in a number of loss investigations and is the author of numerous technical papers.